Sunday, August 16, 2026

Blessing Packets from Sri Aurobindo Ashram

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

‘The tiny Blessing Packets, associated with our Ashram, are unique in themselves in many and varied ways… There is nothing of the kind anywhere else associated with any spiritual group or temple. If there is a Blessing wrapped in a small 4 cms by 3 cms envelope made of decorated paper with the seal of a symbol, sure enough it has come from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.’

 

Sunanda Poddar, senior inmate of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, has shared with us the unique history of Blessing Packets in her article entitled “The Birth of Blessing Packets”.

 

To read the article, kindly click on the following link:


https://overmanfoundation.org/the-birth-of-blessing-packets-by-sunanda-poddar/

 

2 February 2026 marks the 123rd birth anniversary of Champaklal. As our humble homage to him, an article on him entitled ‘My Time with Champaklal’ authored by Bob Zwicker has been published on the website of Overman Foundation. To read the article, kindly click on the following link:


https://overmanfoundation.org/my-time-with-champaklal-by-bob-zwicker/


With warm regards,

Anurag Banerjee


We need free speech both to search for truth, and to express ourselves. When free speech is silenced, it interferes with both of those core human goals.

And it therefore needs to be said loud and clear: silencing speech is a problem no matter who is doing the silencing. By Amod Lele on 1 February 2026 


https://loveofallwisdom.com/blog/2026/02/freedom-of-speech-was-never-just-about-government/

There is a particular kind of magic that happens in a theatre. When the lights dim and you sit in darkness with strangers, you agree to believe in impossible things. The stage becomes whatever it needs to become. A wooden platform transforms into a castle, a bedroom, an entire world. The actors move through this space, and you move with them. Not physically, but in some deeper way that is hard to articulate.

Theatre is where humans practice breaking their closed-world assumptions. It is where we test what cannot be tested anywhere else. It is where wrong answers are not failures but invitations. An actor tries a gesture, a line reading, an approach to a scene, and it doesn’t work. From that failure, something unexpected blooms.

This is the work that must be protected. This is the work that must be nourished.

https://sahityaz.substack.com/p/theatre-of-tomorrow

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